The October finale has started, 3 days left, then on to another month of pandemic restrictions and political ‘BS’. Speaking of political ‘BS’, let’s take a look at what happened overnight, shall we?
As the presidential candidate’s amp up there campaigning to win undecided states, two very different scenes can be seen. Trump is holding mass rallies which could maybe kill more people due to speeding the spread of the coronavirus while Biden pushes the safety aspect and has drive-in style gatherings. Trump is urging his supporters to defy lockdown restrictions while Biden talks about getting the pandemic under control by any means possible. Trump attacks and insults anyone that opposes his ideology while Biden smooths the ground and looks at how everyone’s opinion can be heard. Trump ego boosts himself with lies and untruths while Biden tries to use factual evidence to tell the story of the last four years. Both men are well past their sell by date and should be considered as the bearers for the two Vice presidential candidates who have a better chance come 2024, but in my opinion no one should elect the bible bashing lapdog Trump has on a leash, pence is no way a good candidate for President while Kamala Harris is everything the US needs in a president. What’s more Trump is totally going insane, showing the effects of dementia daily while Biden in his heart knows he will be a one term President paving the way for Harris, maybe even stepping down to install her as the first female president at some point.
Trump has pulled some very idiotic moves in the five years since he announced he would be running for President, but yesterday saw one of his most idiotic yet. While Philadelphia went in to curfew mode after the slaying of Walter Wallace Jr whose family has stated was suffering a mental health crisis when he was shot by officers who say he had refused to drop a knife, Trump introduces the most racist man in Europe to his supporters at a rally in Arizona as “one of the most powerful men in Europe”, which is highly in doubt because all people in the UK see is a small minded corrupt racist. Nigel Farage, the once leader of UKIP which is a racist political party and now the leader of the Brexit party [which believes standing alone is best for the UK, complete ‘BS’] was called up on to the stage where he heaped praise on Trump like the brown nosing fascist he is. During the to and froing the two men, bigged up each other’s egos as Farage stated Trump was solely responsible for “bringing Israel together with Arab nations in a way that nobody ever believed was possible” adding that “Four years ago I was honoured to come to America to bring the Brexit message, the message that you can beat the establishment and that is what Donald Trump did, he beat the pollsters. He beat the media. He beat all the predictions. And here's the worst bit, they've never forgiven him for it”. Farage went on to say of Trump: “This is the single most resilient and brave person I have ever met in my life. You are voting for the only current leader in the free world who has the guts to stand up for the nation state, to fight for patriotism, to fight against globalism”. Basically Farage said everything Trump is not!
What should be questioned though, is why Farage was allowed to firstly leave the UK to fly to America and secondly, how is he of "national interest” to America [other than Trump’s Euro lapdog], the reason given for his exemption from the US travel ban to appear at Trump's events. As a UK citizen I am appalled at such hypocrisy while the UK and US populous are suffering and dying from a global pandemic which still has no answer to how it is transmitted Farage was allowed to travel. What should happen now is for the UK government to ban Farage from re-entering the United Kingdom on the grounds that he has been in an environment that is conducive to the spread of the COVID-19 virus and in close contact with a known carrier of the virus.
America you are under threat from the fascist leadership style of a man on the edge of insanity and to fly someone in from another country is pure egotistical melodrama, especially someone who been proven to be as much of a corrupt racist as Trump is. Trump is pushing his fascism down the American people’s throats while using the position of President as his own family business profiteering off the Office of the President which is totally disgusting. He uses lies and subterfuge to hoodwink the moronic idiots that worship at the altar of Trump to pilfer and abuse. I am still dumbfounded that he even got the chance of the last four years as president, let alone, he may get another four especially after the evidence of his corruption before and after becoming president. Come on America prove the rest of the world right and remove the most undemocratic president in the history of the United States of America before more blood is shed within the borders of your land by a man who sees himself as ‘KING’. November 3rd approaches quickly, six days left to choose! Equality or Fascism?
On that plea, I will change shores and check out dear old Blighty. So comes the news that more areas face tier 3 restrictions as Birmingham and West Midlands are added to the list of possible tier 3 areas under review by the authoritarian cabinet we are now ruled by. Why is it we are hearing about places in the north and central regions of England, but not the south? Has the south got some kind of invisible force field around it, to prevent the virus spreading? The North and Midlands have always been the parts of the country to suffer and are keeping history right as they again feel the North/South divide that has lasted for centuries. If you don’t live south of the Watford Gap, you are deemed unimportant by Parliament, yet 90% of all manufacturing and a good percentage of most industries can be found outside the southern belt of the country while the south is predominantly the hub of the financial industry which is why the south get better support from the government, they don’t want to upset the money controllers, do they? I know everything I have just written is probably highly exaggerated or untrue, but as a Northerner, this how I see it. Growing up in the North Eats of England during the Thatcher years can put a real damper on how you view a Conservative led government, especially one led by Johnson, and his money and power hungry lackey’s, only concerned for themselves!
So anyway let’s get back to the facts. As we head in to the final two months of our ‘Year of Plight’ which is now known as 2020, the newly elected government of one year has faced its fair share of issues from Brexit to the pandemic, both of which are still effecting daily life in the country. Yet Johnson has in one year of being the top dog in politics has been laid bare as incompetent and foolhardy as he installs a decision he says is finite, only to take a U-turn when put under pressure from within his own party, the opposing parties and even the public time and time again. Johnson is no leader and cannot steady his sinking ship as the barrage of discontentment keeps shelling the bunker in which he cowers. The latest of these barrages is the legal action taken against him over his refusal to investigate the Kremlin meddling in the EU referendum back in 2016 which set the country on course for Brexit. A Cross-party group of MP’s and peers in the House of Lords have filed a claim to force an inquiry into Russia’s interference in UK elections which could have influenced both the EU referendum of 2016 and Johnson winning the General election back in December 2019. It seems that both the leader of the US and the UK were helped in to office by the Russians through their close ties with rich prominent people close to the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The cold war is well and truly back in business! Are Trump and Johnson secretly working for Russia? Ask yourself, who stands to gain? By the fascist politics Trump and Johnson continually show in the decisions they make which undermine democracy. Russia is no longer a socialist republic and squarely sits in the lane of dictatorship like China and North Korea where Trump and Johnson would like to see their respective countries futures fall.
All this subterfuge and the UK is more split now, than it has ever been before. The four nations of the United Kingdom are fracturing under the rule of devolution powers as each nation takes its own stance on how they will fight the pandemic. England under Johnson has opted for a 3 tier system, Scotland under Sturgeon has opted for a 5 tier system, Wales under Drakeford has opted for a circuit breaker system and Northern Ireland under Foster has also opted for circuit breaker system. These four differing attitudes to the way the nations are fighting the pandemic is just another example of how devolution can and will kill the Union that is stronger together than it ever will be separated. The more there is of, in fighting the worse the UK is going to be when it comes to competing on the international stages whatever that stage maybe. The politicians of this glorious land need to come together rather than apart to make a combined plan for the four nations to implement together. This is even more prevalent as both Spain and France look to institute a second lockdown due to their rising cases of the virus. The more common the rules are between the four separate nations, the better the likelihood we create the plateau of reported cases of COVID-19 fooled by a rapid decrease, but if we carry on the way we are, with four differing lists of protocols the worst the final outcome will be causing more deaths that could have been prevented like the untimely death of actor and comedian Bobby Ball who has passed away from complications due to coronavirus yesterday [Wednesday 29th October, R.I.P Bobby].
As a global community in the last nine months we have witnessed over a million deaths from COVID-19, not only in the poor, but also in the rich and famous. This disease is not restricted to nationality, creed, colour, sexual orientation or financial status, granted the rich can get better health care in some countries, but it is a global killer and should be investigated and tested by a global team of experts rather than each country working on their own. The World Health Organisation or something similar should be getting global funding to build a team of experts from every field to fight these growing pandemic deaths before it becomes an extinction event or mutates out of control worse than it is now. A member of each nation of the world should be sitting around a virtual table talking about creating a team from each country to liaise with each other on the findings and it should not be developed by multi-conglomerate companies so they can profiteer of the suffering of humankind like is happening right now. Come on where has the common sense gone? Are we really that stubborn that we can’t work together for the betterment of the human race? On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
